I love ZX Spectrums, restaurant guides, and the occasional good cover drive.

I have been working with websites since I built one for Gordon's Gin in 1996 at a London advertising agency, when “the web” was a single underline-blue link away from a 14.4k modem. I never really stopped.

In 2000 I founded london-eating.co.uk, the largest restaurant guide in Europe between 2001 and 2006, with a team of twenty including a sales operation. We pioneered user-generated content — strangers writing reviews of restaurants they'd actually eaten in — six years before Yelp turned up. We sold to toptable.co.uk in August 2006, and I joined toptable as Head of Innovation. We helped sell toptable to OpenTable in 2010 for $50m; I drove the mobile strategy, including an iPhone app that hit 500k+ downloads and 20% of total bookings.

Since then I've worked across digital strategy and innovation for restaurants, theatre, retail and parcel logistics. I'm currently Chief Information Officer at ParcelHero, where I joined as Head of Marketing in 2015, grew revenues 300% in two years, and have been running technology across the business since. I write code most days and play cricket badly for Sonning CC most Sundays.

In my spare time I run Lost Retro Tapes, where I document my attempts to keep the British 8-bit micro era alive — recreating ZX Spectrums from new components, restoring old hardware, and writing about why any of this matters today. It probably doesn't, but it's mine. I also recently founded Galangal, which I'm keeping quiet about for now.